Recommended Reading
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Financial Discrimination
- “Controlling the keys to the Golden City”: The payment ecosystem and the regulation of adult webcamming and subscription-based fan platforms 
 Rébecca S. Franco (Dec 2024)
- The definitional creep: Payment processing and the moral ordering of sexual content 
 Val Webber and Rébecca S. Franco (Nov 2024)
- ‘This is fucking nuts’: the role of payment intermediaries in structuring precarity and dependencies in platformized sex work 
 Val Webber and Rébecca S. Franco (Sep 2024)
- Financial Discrimination and the Adult Industry Report 
 Free Speech Coalition (2023)
- High Risk Hustling: Payment Processors Sexual Proxies and Discrimination by Design 
 Zahra Stardust, Danielle Blunt, Gabriella Garcia, Lorelei Lee, Kate D'Adamo, Rachel Kuo (Winter 2023)
- “Shut Up and Take My Money!”: Revenue Chokepoints, Platform Governance, and Sex Workers’ Financial Exclusion 
 Bianca Beebe, International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law (Jul 2022)
- The Impact of Mastercard's Adult Content Policy on Adult Content Creators: Survey Results & Analysis 
 Val Webber (Feb 2022)
- Financial Discrimination of Sex Workers in the UK: A research report from National Ugly Mugs 
 National Ugly Mugs (Dec 2021)
- Shut & Shut Out: Access to Financial Services and Online Payments for Sex Workers in the US 
 Center for LGBTQ Economic Advancement & Research (2021)
Censorship
Age Verification
- Age verification for pornography access? Our research shows it fails on many levels 
 Zahra Stardust and Alan McKee (June 10, 2024)
- How to Address Children’s Online Safety in the United States 
 Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (June 3, 2024)
- More than just a number: How determining user age impacts startups 
 Engine (February 2024)
- Would New Legislation Actually Make Kids Safer Online? Analyzing the Consequences of Recent Youth Online Safety Proposals 
 Jennifer Huddleston / Cato Institute (April 2023)
- The XXX Factor: Why internet freedom hinges on pornography 
 European Policy Information Center (December 2023)
- Challenges with Identifying Minors Online: A Brief Introduction 
 Congressional Research Service (November 2022)
- Online age verification: balancing privacy and the protection of minors 
 French National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (September 2022)
- Children and the Internet: Legal Considerations in Restricting Access to Content 
 Congressional Research Service (March 2022)
Social Media
- Free Speech Challenges to Florida and Texas Social Media Laws 
 Congressional Research Service (September 2022)
- Manifesto for sex-positive social media 
 Zahra Stardust, Emily van der Nagel, Katrin Tiidenberg, Jiz Lee, Em Coombes, Mireille Miller-Young (August 2022)
- Posting Into the Void: Studying the Impact of Shadowbanning on Sex Workers and Activists 
 Hacking//Hustling (2020)
Constitutional Rights
The Right to Privacy & Substantive Due Process
- Substantive Due Process and a Comparison of Approaches to Sexual Liberty 
 William Council, Fordham Law Review (2020)
- Pulling the Fig Leaf off the Right of Privacy: Sex and the Constitution 
 Donald H.J. Hermann, DePaul Law Review (2005)
Porn’s Impact
- What Do We Know About the Effects of Pornography After Fifty Years of Academic Research? 
 Alan McKee, Katerina Litsou, Paul Byron, and Roger Ingham (June 2022)
Aggression & Violence
- Most Sex Offenders Do Not Rely on Scripts Learned from Porn 
 Psychology Today (August 2022)
- Who Likes Violent Porn? New Research Upends Expectations 
 Psychology Today (July 2022)
Porn as a Public Health Crisis
- Should Public Health Professionals Consider Pornography a Public Health Crisis? 
 American Journal of Public Health (February 2020)
Addiction
- Constructing Pornography Addiction’s Harms in Science, News Media, and Politics 
 Kelsey Burke, Alice MillerMacPhee (March 2020)
Human Trafficking
- Decreasing Human Trafficking through Sex Work Decriminalization 
 Erin Albright, JD, and Kate D’Adamo, MA (2017)
- Lies, damned lies and sex work statistics 
 Maggie McNeill / Washington Post (2014)
- Sex Work is Not Trafficking 
 Global Network of Sex Work Projects (2011)
FOSTA/SESTA
- Five Reflections from Four Years of FOSTA/SESTA 
 Kendra Albert, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (Apr 2022)
- Sex Trafficking: Online Platforms and Federal Prosecutions 
 US Government Accountability Office (June 2021)
- Erased: The Impact of FOSTA-SESTA & Removal of Backpage 
 Hacking//Hustling (2020)
- How a Petition to Shut Down Pornhub Got Two Million Signatures 
 Samantha Cole, Vice (Sept 2020)
- FOSTA: A Hostile Law with a Human Cost 
 Lura Chamberlain (2019)
